Alexander Skowron

LIFE Fellow from 2019 to 2024, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. rer. nat.

Dissertation completed at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in November 2024

Neural Variability as a Marker of Cognitive Flexibility During Learning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

(Advisors: Ulman Lindenberger & Douglas Garrett)

Publications

Skowron, A., Kosciessa, J. Q., Lorenz, R., Hertwig, R., van den Bos, W., & Garrett, D. D. (2025). Neural variability in the default mode network compresses with increasing belief precision during Bayesian inference. Cerebral Cortex, 35(9), Article bhaf219. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf219

Garrett, D. D., Skowron, A., Wiegert, S., Adolf, J., Dahle, C. L., Lindenberger, U., & Raz, N. (2021). Lost dynamics and the dynamics of loss: Longitudinal compression of brain signal variability is coupled with declines in functional integration and cognitive performance. Cerebral Cortex, 31(11), 5239–5252. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhab154